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See also: off book
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]- (theater) Able to perform scripted material from memory, without need to refer to the text.
- (accounting) Off the books, not officially recorded.
- 2013, James Palmer, ‘Kept women’, Aeon:
- An enormous amount of off-book money sloshes around Chinese business and officialdom, and some of it runs into handbags.